Management Coaching and Training

Management Coaching and Training

In many ways developing management capacity in business is the core work of The Great Performances Group.

Our goal for our clients is success measured in maximum sustainable profits, sustainable and well-managed growth and market share, and a clear end-game. Good management is the key to each of those goals.

Effective management consists of nine behaviours:

constantly building the team; specifically hiring and onboarding of the right people;

communicating clearly (understanding communication is more about listening and understanding than talking), especially

bringing out the best in team members through specific, frequent, and positive feedback;

rapidly creating order in chaos and rallying others around positive solutions;

designing processes and projects that understand and leverage the financial, behavioral, and operational realities of the organization;

mentoring, training, and developing others;

being highly productive and modeling productivity for the rest of the organization (understanding productivity is not about volume or speed, but about quality, sustainability, and effectiveness);

effectively managing resources like time, money, and human talent in a way that adds maximum value to those areas that are the domain of the manager;

acting as a shield for their team: ‘absorbing’ the pushes and pressures of the ‘outside’ and taking responsibility for appropriately filtering, converting those forces into fuel for growth

Management Coaching and Training

The Great Performances Group builds stronger management teams in three ways:

Providing assessments, reviews, and feedback of current states, and opportunities for growth;

Working directly with individual managers to improve communication, and productivity;

Assessments and Reviews

Having an accurate picture of the current state of affairs is a precondition for any valid decision-making at all. Most errors that result in the failure of various strategies, are the consequence of answering the wrong question.

We work with your management team to understand:

your market

employee sentiment

your financial reality

the productivity of your people and systems

general costs and opportunities in your business

management effectiveness

We use online survey tools, face-to-face interviews, and round-table conversations to collect the data and flavour of your organization. We issue detailed reports that celebrate your wins and your strengths, and outline simple concise action items we believe will leverage growth and change.

Management Coaching

Managing others is perhaps the most complex area of business because it involves humans and relationships. No two people, no two teams, and no two days are ever the same, because of the ‘people’ variable.

The Great Performances Group provides one-on-one coaching to help your managers develop:

Management Training

Many areas of management are universal, and are often not executed well simply because of a lack of knowledge. In these cases a lot can be accomplished in a couple of hours of training, and some follow-up.

Bring your managers together for a morning and increase their ability to manage effectively in a number of different areas.

Positive Feedback Management – using clarity of outcomes, great communication, and creating managed feedback loops to improve engagement, retention, and productivity. Positive Feedback Management is the ONLY tool that will consistently create these results.

Project and Change Management – just because a new direction, a new structure, or a new piece of software is a good idea, does not mean it will work. The gap is the failure to manage the project or the change. Successful Project and Change management in an organization is an art and a science. And it can be taught.

Growth Sequencing – learn the technique of accelerating growth through a steady sequence of wins. Get out of the endless cycle of empty meetings, endless planning, never finishing or winning, constant changes of direction to no purpose. Growth Sequences set a goal and get your team there, faster, more enjoyably, and ready to take on bigger and bigger challenges.

Adult Training or ‘Train the Trainer’ – adult or industrial education is a distinct subset of learning generally. If your managers are responsible for training (safety, sales, processes) there are ways that get results and there are ways to waste your time and money. We have education specialists that can train your managers to become effective, results-generating trainers.

6 Things That Will Absolutely Change Your Business

John has been my business coach for a year now and I have seen an ROI of 25% in my net Revenue and profit as a result. He has helped me to focus on driving sales, focusing my time, improving production and employee satisfaction. As an entrepreneur, it is important to know where you are in your business and specifically where you are going. John has given me tools to analyse what I have done and do what i have to do to move my business forward.

Cheryl Foley

I highly recommend John as a coach and a business consultant: deep experience and interest in a client's needs, strong support and powerful coaching skills helped me to identify a new level of my business development through amazing "Aha moment!" just in a hour work with John! Thank you John, and wishing you well!

Marina Malmberg – Owner

John is a visionary that takes global thinking from years of experience across big and small corporate environments, and applies it locally by pursuing his passion of providing traction for micro business growth. Working alongside John at The Network Hub Nanaimo has resulted in several "a-ha!" moments through discussion and collaboration, and John's presence is reassuring. So, if you are like me - a micro-business owner with a 'why not' mindset - you will likely experience a faster 'concept' to 'commercialization' for your business by working with John.